"Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)." Macmillan Encyclopedia of theEnvironment. Ed. Stephen R. Kellert, Matthew Black, and Richard Haley. Vol. 2. New York: Simon & Schuster Macmillan, 1997. 76-77.
The main goal is to protect the public health and public welfare of people.
The act is concerned with air emissions that come from stationary and mobile sources
The main concern that is covered in the act is on ambient air, which is the air in your surroundings.
EPA establish National Ambient Air Quality Standards (NAAQS)
Goal: Keep public health and the public welfare safe and regulate emissions of hazardous air pollutants.
Goal: Hazardous pollutants are stated in the act. Some examples include suspended particulates, sulfur oxides, carbon dioxide, nitrogen oxides, ozone, hydrocarbons, and lead.
Goal: State implementation plans (SIPs) are formed with directing the states
The goals are modified to certain industries in different states.
support states in reaching required NAAQS standards
Section 112
Targets emissions of hazardous air pollutants
1990 the Amendments was revision
Technology-based standards for major sources were needed.
The major sources include stationary sources or groups of stationary sources. They are considered major sources in that they may possibly expose 10 tons per year or more of hazardous air pollutant or 25 tons per year or more of a combination of hazardous air pollutants
The term area source refers to any stationary source that is not a major source
http://www.epa.gov/lawsregs/laws/caa.html
"Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)." Macmillan Encyclopedia of the Environment. Ed. Stephen R. Kellert, Matthew Black, and Richard Haley. Vol. 2. New York: Simon & Schuster Macmillan, 1997. 76-77.